The Man Who Never Was (1956)

Directed by

Ronald Neame

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 94 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

British intelligence officers craft an elaborate deception to mislead the Axis about the next Allied invasion target in World War II. They create a false identity and plant fake documents on a corpse. The film follows the plan's careful execution and the risks of its discovery.

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What happens

The Man Who Never Was is a 1956 British espionage thriller film produced by André Hakim and directed by Ronald Neame. It stars Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame and features Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin and Stephen Boyd. It is based on the book of the same name by Lt Cmdr Ewen Montagu and chronicles Operation Mincemeat, a 1943 British intelligence plan to deceive the Axis powers into thinking the Allied invasion of Sicily would take place elsewhere in the Mediterranean. The Man Who Never Was was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, and Nigel Balchin's screenplay won the BAFTA for that year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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